Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-31
MEMORIAL DAY.
Continued from Third Page.

A Salu ne loves me- LOT now SO ely nave i been
! chastened. One day in the reception room
where they Rad summoned me TO come
and meet my parents from southland,
NETS lady fair haired Saxon cir, with her
| father. They had history. He was q caval-
| Ter from the Palmetto state, married a lady OF
hi-trionic art. and so PIERCE Butler transferred
Fannie hemble,the renowned actress, from the
| stage to his Carolina rice fields. This was an
oniy child, their daughtt r, Fannie, Secession
had divorced them. He had given up his
| slaves and come north, but could not give up
about the old flag, and the slave life she saw In
| the rice fields OF rOlina. The daughter fol-
| lowed the fortunes of the father and was there
! with him to give his suffering people aid. Il
| Wss WHISPERED that the loyal Dungeons went
| soft on the fair Fannie. Re this as 1t may, Ger
tain It is she had full sway there, and Gid many
very glorious deeds of charity for suffering
! humanity, as well as was done by many of your
people that were not southern sympathizers.
| PIERCE Butler whose knsman is
| now In our Senate, was gathered TO his
haiT-whas became of her: She fitted back
with the little rice birds, that 20 north every
| season, TO her rice fl Ids And when the war
was at an end titled EnglIshman found her
wandering up and down them minated, and
| bore her away from u.s. They met by chance
| the usual way She Is now over there, and
ladies, I'll wager she, like Gladstone, is a good
| Home Ruler.
OFF FOR HOME
| Then cane the happy day when we were to
steam Tor home, down 1.-THE Delaware out
tue good ship City of New YOrk, Captain CHS
hom-kind soul, II ay he live forever and never
die Like the sailor boy / saw the ocean,
wild in all It's glory, and sunrise on
the green, green sea-not the blue
| Sc !, but green were it's waters to me. 1 noted.
! TOO, the white track Of the ship with Mother
| ing with an Intelligence, humanlike, after gain
| from the dror pings of the vessel. We passed
| the dark and frowning fort Monroe, a. the en-
trance of the James and next with shuddsr
Of "a al IN n no Ii amos n
lauded that human cargo OF twenty that brought
us sll these Incidental woes. Next arose the
shore at CitT Point, and Fastening again to the
land of my sires, stood erect with hat In hand
and exclaimed:
my NAME IS M'GREGOR.
and stand upon my native heath" Now, Ia.
dies and gentle men and soldiers, You see | say
soldiers apart from the gentle, for doubt II we
be entitled to the term after all these wild
works of woe and war, let us, too, have
drama with ali these characters here therein.
Let US call 1t the chariot of cur new constitC-
ton, bearing therein our nation born again
anew in its new birth of freedom, embemed
by Uncle Abe and Uncle Robert as we see
them here, side by side We will have them
holding The lines of the two grand forces, and
we will have along Whitney and Lady Greene
and Davis and Johnson and the antidote,
Aunty Harriet, on whom we all dOIe, and Uncle
Tom and the faithful black George and
we viii traverse the world around in search of
that lasting peace among. ourselves
prayed pray on this heid we might
achieve. We will ave. too, the good master,
Lut not the b'c, but in his stead something
worse. That doughty warrior who, Ike Jobs
horse of war, ever smeleth the battle from afar
and pawetn the valley because he was not
there, and wherever fighting Is TO be done we
will nut him foremost. Then we NAV be as
sUred that we will have that peace that Grant
30 long prayed to see, and he said he was jOyed
to know had come to us ali before he stacked
If this valiant knight OF the jaw-bone end wind
bag but smcllCth rom atar chance OF war, as
these honored dead here have known, ne Will
shrink back and say thathe too,has had enough
Then we will ring the curtain down with q
LAUGHABLE FARCE.
Such as happened one night at the hospital,
Chester Mr. Yank and Johnnie Reb had
grown vel enough Of their mutual wounds
for forget to tell you h I'D your mangled blue
there too TO 90 out larking. They knew for
each no other name than Iank and Re-, nor
did they care, for, being Of one blood, the many
hard knocks on the field of battle had temper.
ed the steel in their hearts TO s0ftness. They
got BAGS in time for taps, and in trying while
out to see If prohibition would or no prohibit
they filed thems Ives full of bug Juice, and
this made Reb Wild again So when back again
in the ward, he Teacned up and tore down 1.-The
old flag" which he called an cid rag Then
MIR Yank took poise on his ear, and went TO
work to see what he would do about It.
! ank was slow, you see, as lteb was quick
Presen ly said he, "See here. Johnnie, kinder
ca culate that ! remember that our General Dix |
said, long ago, tnat whoever hauis down the
American flag, to shoot him on the snout," ard
so Mr.. lunk, sure enough, doubled up his
fist and shot him on the snoUt Then |
says Reb, "Look here, Yank, thar is more of
you-uns than the. is of we-uns, and you |
know 1t Now l tell you what I'll do if you |
un7 will Just give We-uns q fair show for my |
whitealley and 1 don't whip you I'll holltr
huff when 20 whip me, and we'll agree to put |
back hat old rag and call it the "old flag" and
Wen make up and agree to kiss and quit,
1t was agreed, so they went out on The green |
sWaro by the wards, the wounded blue and |
~ay, with their sticks and crutches forming a
ring aroun and fought. They fought like
brave men, long and wei, and one of them con- |
quered, for the YaDk he fell, as the bottom rail,
and 10 Johnnie Reb, being the quicker, fell on |
top. There he sat him busy pounding Yank, |
Then said Yank, "See here, Johnnie, If you'll |
let me NJ, tell you what we'll do: Wei go to |
gether and put back the old flag and make mp |
and kiss and quit. Then I'll h. ller 'nuff,' but |
not before" And 50 they did, and |
made up and Kissed and quit. And
Yank and Reb both hollered "nuf."
Soldiers, we too have made up and kissed and |
quit 1t is only the bold, bad Tha deus of War
saw, who never war saw or saw war, that
keeps IN the racket of war Let US put him out
Of the chariot of our new constitution as an
important act of this grand drama of
good will among all men who are |
now everywhere free Ard, as our Uncle Abe |
said we viii aCh!rve for ourselves and all ma
lions lasting peace In this, the Centennial
year" of orr cid constitution, made anew with |
the sacrifices here offered on these plains, and |
thus we Will, in fact and in deed enjoy new
DlElH VI ItGShOLb-
The next speaker introduced was L. n.
Cooper, Esq, who spoke as follows:
ave come to-day TO offer no unmean-
ing ceremonies to the dead. With each
year, this day illustrates more
the elimination of the hope |
Of a great republic. 1t is Decoration
Day, and ii an angel ever stoops from the
battlements of the blest, to witness the
solemnities of men, it seems TO me that it
would be upon an occasion like this, when
hand to hand and heart 70 heart, standing
over the graves of their own blood, the
greatest nation upon this earth swear
that the past is forgotten, and that hence
forth and forever there shall be an eternal
peace, and love and good fellowship shall,
under God, perpetuate and save the
nation. 1t is we'll, for no matter
what may be the opinions of men,
the prejudices Of the past sre forgotten;
party utilization and tradition stand mute
IN the presence of the dead, and the
sound of political discord is hushed in
The solemn stiffness of the grave. A
quarter of q century has Low rolled
away since the final decision to the dread
of war, and though they upon
whose graves we to-day scatter the bud
md the boom have mouldered to dust,
yet will the great heart of the American
people warm TO their memories so long
lG Ostriot1sm finds O Iodomput in the